Borderlands is Year’s Fastest-Selling Original IP, Patch 1.01 Released

If you’re playing Borderlands (and stats say that you most likely are), you’ll be really glad to hear of some of the improvements here.
Gearbox has announced just today that Borderlands is officially the year’s fastest-selling original IP. Yes, I said “Whuh?” too, and realised that most of the major games we’ve had this year were sequels or remakes of some sort: Modern Warfare 2, Assassin’s Creed 2, Guitar Hero 5, Left 4 Dead 2, and on and on. Of course, that doesn’t mean Borderlands was without competition. Original IPs introduced this year included Tim Schafer’s Brütal Legend and BioWare’s Dragon Age: Origins.

Many of these are very welcome changes, most notably that server information will now display the correct plot mission, and Lilith’s special attacks are fixed. The Lilith was problem was really bad, and made me wonder how they shipped the game like that. Extra text in item cards sounds like a welcome addition to counter the game’s consoley look. And also, you can now mute players, which is a relief from those <insert favourite curse here> players who keep their broken mics on, ruining the game for everyone.